Most overhyped prospects in recent memory?

[FlyguyOX]

lol Blackwood. Devils argued to death that he was better than Carter Hart.

Well, well, well.

Congrats to Blackwood for revitalizing his career

 

[Craig Ludwig]

Oh man the Leafs hype for Mathew Knies last year, he was the next big power forward since prime Eric Lindros.

I can admit when I'm wrong, he's turned out to be a good to great player, but I still think he's overrated as pundits are saying he deserves $9-10 Million a year?

 

[miscs75]

Joshua Brook lol. One fella on here ranked him the 13th best prospect in the NHL

I wonder who he was drafted by.

 

[Erika]

It's got to be Connor Bedard and it's not even close. The generational tag was all over the place for him.

After 2 years in the NHL, he is no where close to being generational... I think it's pretty obvious by now.

Bedard is an undersized, one dimensional winger disguised as a center. He has a good shot, but is kind of slow for his diminutive size. His hockey sense is very questionable after witnessing some of the bonehead plays he does pretty often. It's like if he's still playing a junior game.

His faceoffs skills are terrible and is pretty abyssal defensively, which causes him to start trying to chase the puck after a whistle more often than not.

Hopefully for him, a coach will have the courage to put him at his place aka the wing. If he still plays at center, I don't see any success in the future for him.

 

[Mathieukferland]

Jack Hughes could be next McDavid, Central Scouting says | NHL.com

Here's how prospects eligible for 2019 Draft measure up to current NHL players

www.nhl.com

Article that comes to mind

 

[Giant Panda]

It's got to be Connor Bedard and it's not even close. The generational tag was all over the place for him.

After 2 years in the NHL, he is no where close to being generational... I think it's pretty obvious by now.

Bedard is an undersized, one dimensional winger disguised as a center. He has a good shot, but is kind of slow for his diminutive size. His hockey sense is very questionable after witnessing some of the bonehead plays he does pretty often. It's like if he's still playing a junior game.

His faceoffs skills are terrible and is pretty abyssal defensively, which causes him to start trying to chase the puck after a whistle more often than not.

Hopefully for him, a coach will have the courage to put him at his place aka the wing. If he still plays at center, I don't see any success in the future for him.

I was getting roasted hard for those observations on him pre draft.

Dude needs coaching. He needs to have a ton of pressure taken off him so he can develop. He needs to work on his shiftiness and his play through the gaps.

The Bedard we see is a rushed development based on overhype. He could've ended up as the next Tavares (but as a winger) or as an elite winger but people believed him to be something he wasn't.

Hype destroyed his ceiling.

 

[Jumptheshark]

the guy the oilers took at 4th. Matthews, Laine and Pizza boy were the big three. There were gasps when the BJS passed on him and the oilers pounced like a cat on a rat. The Finnish BJS GM clearly knew one thing and nothing else

 

[miscs75]

I was getting roasted hard for those observations on him pre draft.

Dude needs coaching. He needs to have a ton of pressure taken off him so he can develop. He needs to work on his shiftiness and his play through the gaps.

The Bedard we see is a rushed development based on overhype. He could've ended up as the next Tavares (but as a winger) or as an elite winger but people believed him to be something he wasn't.

Hype destroyed his ceiling.

They also are giving him no support essentially. Even Tavares had guys like Okposo, Bailey and a few others who basically came along a couple of years before him and gave him something to work with. Bedard is playing with next to nothing which is just destroying his development. Chicago needs to just load up on a few quality skilled vets as support for him and take some pressure off.

 

[Miro4Norris]

Dylan Holloway?

Oh man the Leafs hype for Mathew Knies last year, he was the next big power forward since prime Eric Lindros.

Broberg is the only guy there who was overhyped.

The rest are guys that nobody except die-hard draft watchers had even heard of.

Dont think you guys know what overhyped means.

 

[Miro4Norris]

Aaron Kiviharju and Brad Lambert of Finns. Also Aatu Räty despite that i believe he will be a solid NHLer. So pretty much every Finn with a high expected pick lately if you throw in Kakko and Kemell..

Plus Topi Niemelä but of course because he is a Leafs prospect

 

[Garbageyuk]

Michkov. Heard incessantly from a few obnoxious loudmouths on here before the season started that he was generational and was going to put up anywhere from a point per game to 100+ points this year. Meanwhile, he couldn’t outscore Hutson and isn’t even a finalist for the Calder. Now, there’s an active thread where the same crazies from before are comparing him to McDavid and saying he has “multiple Art Ross potential”. Absolute insanity

 

[Fatass]

Easily Bedard.

 

[Svedu]

Aaron Kiviharju and Brad Lambert of Finns. Also Aatu Räty despite that i believe he will be a solid NHLer. So pretty much every Finn with a high expected pick lately if you throw in Kakko and Kemell..

Plus Topi Niemelä but of course because he is a Leafs prospect

Disagree on Kakko. Got pretty mishandled as well. Lambert is a high risk. But yeah, Kemell seems to become another Teemu Pulkkinen even if he should have been a better skater and more skilled. Preds are pretty shit developing forwards. Also we have franchises like Jets... I mean, can a finn survive there after Selännes days? Heinola sure wasn't overhyped. The potential was really there and obvious.
Aatu Räty always lacked in the skating department and severely with no explosiveness nor intensity. But he will become a NHLer and a decent one. Also, Kiviharju and Aatu Räty dropped in the end, can you really call them overhyped afterwards? Kemell on the other hand...

 

[Svedu]

Collberg was pretty overhyped once. Filatov. I mean by now you can call Jiricek overhyped but I always say big potential in him... I mean hasn't some Devils fans written that Casey is better than Nemec already? Making Nemec overhyped perhaps?
Bärtschi? Murphy? Siemens. Griffin Reinhart. Morin. Dal Colle. Senyshyn. Lias Andersson. Cal Foote. Turcotte. Podkolzin. Owen Power, he is so bad imho. Can't even defend. Savoie.

Kupari was overhyped, Vaakanainen, Jokiharju? Zboril? Zadina, Mesar? Kylington? Liljegren? Victor Söderström?
Sweden produce a whole lot of great D's but they have plenty of overhyped ones during their prospect years as well.

 

[Felonious Python]

I feel like it's kind of inevitable when it looks like there's a great draft class. It'll be hard to hype anyone at the 2025 draft, but the supposedly loaded Gavin McKenna draft? Yeah, they're not all going to make it.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Michkov. Heard incessantly from a few obnoxious loudmouths on here before the season started that he was generational and was going to put up anywhere from a point per game to 100+ points this year. Meanwhile, he couldn’t outscore Hutson and isn’t even a finalist for the Calder. Now, there’s an active thread where the same crazies from before are comparing him to McDavid and saying he has “multiple Art Ross potential”. Absolute insanity

Lol. Michkov was PPG+ after the 4 Nation, when he rested, was placed on the 1st line and played under coach who actually encouraged his offensive creativity. Michkov showed everything people expected from him, and especially his great IQ.

How can one call him overhyped?.. Ah yes, of course it's a Montreal fan.

 

[jtechkid68]

I will have to say Schaefer since he is going number one in which he didn’t really play much hockey . If he was going later like like 4-7 th I think would be fine but name me a number 1 who barely played his draft season

 

[Lampedampe]

I'll always remember the Liljegren hype, with his "historic" AHL season

 

[The Last Red]

Right now . . . Bedard. But he has time to change the narrative.

 

[Garbageyuk]

Lol. Michkov was PPG+ after the 4 Nation, when he rested, was placed on the 1st line and played under coach who actually encouraged his offensive creativity. Michkov showed everything people expected from him, and especially his great IQ.

How can one call him overhyped?.. Ah yes, of course it's a Montreal fan.

Hey look, it’s the guy comparing him to McDavid and talking about “multi Ross potential” in the other thread

And what is that, like a 9 game sample? Lol.

Suzuki scored at a nearly 120 point pace after the 4-Nations; do you expect him to win the Art Ross next year?

No? Didn’t think so. Every player in the league had stretches of PPG+ play at some point; it’s nearly meaningless. Cherry pick all you want.

On the other hand, Michkov was held pointless 41 times last season. That’s over half the season where he was absolutely useless, being a small soft perimeter winger who’s a liability when not scoring, and often even when he is. He had scoreless stretches of 6, 7, 5, 7, and 4 games sprinkled throughout season.

Michkov is one of the most overhyped prospects in a long time.

 

[ToastedRavioli]

Wow, it's pretty crazy that Broberg and Holloway both got a bunch of mentions in this thread a year ago. Both are core players for the Blues just a year later at 23. It's funny how people will lambast others for overhyping while underhyping and writing off young prospects too soon in the same breath.

 

[Hanji]

Michkov. Heard incessantly from a few obnoxious loudmouths on here before the season started that he was generational and was going to put up anywhere from a point per game to 100+ points this year. Meanwhile, he couldn’t outscore Hutson and isn’t even a finalist for the Calder. Now, there’s an active thread where the same crazies from before are comparing him to McDavid and saying he has “multiple Art Ross potential”. Absolute insanity

Hey look, it’s the guy comparing him to McDavid and talking about “multi Ross potential” in the other thread

And what is that, like a 9 game sample? Lol.

Suzuki scored at a nearly 120 point pace after the 4-Nations; do you expect him to win the Art Ross next year?

No? Didn’t think so. Every player in the league had stretches of PPG+ play at some point; it’s nearly meaningless. Cherry pick all you want.

On the other hand, Michkov was held pointless 41 times last season. That’s over half the season where he was absolutely useless, being a small soft perimeter winger who’s a liability when not scoring, and often even when he is. He had scoreless stretches of 6, 7, 5, 7, and 4 games sprinkled throughout season.

Michkov is one of the most overhyped prospects in a long time.

How can Michkov be one of the most overhyped prospects if, by your own words, a few obnoxious loudmouths on HFBoards were saying he’d score 80-100 points?

Does not one of the most mean a sizable amount of people, media, etc, are overhyping him, not just a handful of crazies?
Most overhyped are guys like Bedard, Kaakko, et al

 

[Garbageyuk]

How can Michkov be one of the most overhyped prospects if, by your own words, a few obnoxious loudmouths on HFBoards were saying he’d score 80-100 points?

Does not one of the most mean a sizable amount of people, media, etc, are overhyping him, not just a handful of crazies?
Most overhyped are guys like Bedard, Kaakko, et al

Lol, why are you assuming those were the only ones hyping him? Go read the threads. Most of the media had him running away with the Calder too. The hype was absolutely insane.

 

[Andre Palot]

Jack Hughes could be next McDavid, Central Scouting says | NHL.com

Here's how prospects eligible for 2019 Draft measure up to current NHL players

www.nhl.com

Article that comes to mind

If he could stay healthy then it wouldn't look too crazy

 

[AlternateSideParking]

Lol, why are you assuming those were the only ones hyping him? Go read the threads. Most of the media had him running away with the Calder too. The hype was absolutely insane.

Michkov lived up to the hype. They love him in Philly and his jersey is the top seller. The media tried to destroy him for two years and his play forced them to accept they were wrong.

I get you hate him but saying North American media are on his side is an absolute joke. He should have been a Calder finalist over Wolf, who was almost four years older and AHL seasoned, plus a sub-.900 save percentage during the last month of the season. Michkov is better for the league.